In the eastern part of Outer Mongolia, the battle to pursue the troops of the Soviet Far Eastern Front was in full swing, and the battlefields of Hagengol and Baiyinchagan, which encircled the troops of the Soviet Transcaucasian Military District in the north, were unbearably calm, and the besieged Soviet troops did not break through the encirclement, and the Soviet troops in other directions did not have the intention of rescuing, which in itself was not very normal.

Therefore, the Soviet army should make some moves, Tang Qiuli is not surprised that the Soviet army moves the fighter group, but he is anxious about the chief of staff Zhao Yuhe, and he does not understand it, it is said that Zhao Yuhe has experienced countless major battles in the position of chief of staff of the division commander and the chief of staff of the east finger, and he has never seen any scenes, just the Soviet army's aircraft group, does it make him so out of shape?

Tang Qiuli couldn't help but laugh, "Yuhe, messed up?" Or is it a large group of aircraft, how big is it, it will not be overwhelming, and the space of the battlefield cannot be accommodated, right? ”

Zhao Yuhe's face was slightly red, and he said: "Division commander, I didn't explain it, how big the scale is, let's put it this way, it should be the combat planes of the Soviet army in the East, all of which have run to the battlefields of Hagen Gaole and Baiyin Chagan, according to Commander Le's telegram, there are at least more than 1,500 fighters and more than 600 bombers!" ”

"What?" This time, even Tang Qiuli couldn't help but exclaim, the Soviet army actually dispatched more than 2,000 combat planes, such a big scene, shocking enough, all of them were put into the battlefield, and their own hundreds of thousands of horses were not enough to bomb!

Tang Qiuli calmed down from the shock of the moment and asked, "Yuhe, what is Le Yiqin's deployment and how to deal with it?" ”

Zhao Yuhe replied succinctly: "According to the order of the division commander, all the fighters of the aviation force were dispatched to block the Soviet aircraft group from the airspace of the battlefield. Air supremacy will be seized at any cost! Inflicting heavy damage on the Soviet Air Force, otherwise, it could not deter the ferocious flames of the Soviet Air Force. ”

After a pause, Zhao Yuhe added: "Listening to the meaning of Commander Le, with a resolute determination without hesitation, it can be seen that the Soviet aircraft group poured out of the nest, putting huge pressure on the aviation forces, and Commander Le has the idea of breaking the cauldron!" ”

Tang Qiuli remained motionless. frowned, Zhao Yuhe's words are not unreasonable, with Le Yiqin's character, he is a person who is not afraid of big battles and bad battles. is also a master who refuses to suffer, with the Japanese Air Force. British Air Force in India. And in the First Outer Mongolian War, he fought with the Soviet Air Force, from Outer Mongolia to the Indochina Peninsula, every time he fought a big battle, he was confident and victorious.

This time, it will be possible to say whatever it takes. It can be seen that Le Yiqin has a premonition that this air battle will be a vicious battle. The air force must fight a difficult air battle under the condition that the number of fighters is at a disadvantage, and the air battle certainly relies on the pilot's flying skills and courage, but the number of fighters is also one of the decisive factors.

Tang Qiuli's frowning brows suddenly stretched out, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and said to Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, send a telegram to Le Yiqin, tell him, don't have the idea of breaking the kettle, the aviation can intercept more than two-thirds of the Soviet fighter group, and the remaining fighters and all the bombers will be handed over to the ground air defense force to solve, and the focus of the aviation force is to ensure that Yang Ketian's troops will not be attacked by the Soviet army." ”

"The combat planes of the Soviet army in the east were dispatched in order to cover the retreat of the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, and ordered that all brigades directly under the corps immediately launch a general attack on the Soviet army, and the specific tactics were to increase the intensity and firepower of the armored forces of Battelle in front of them, and force the Soviet troops to retreat step by step, and the attack groups on the left and right flanks to reduce the intensity of the attack on the Soviet army and move the Soviet troops in the encirclement!"

Zhao Yuhe was still digesting Tang Qiuli's words, and Wang Jun, deputy chief of staff, said: "Division commander, what do you mean, let the Soviet army break through?" ”

Tang Qiuli gritted his teeth and replied: "Yes, only by letting the Soviet army move and providing air fire cover for the Soviet air force will it not be easy for our army to fix positions and form firepower to kill, Deputy Division Commander Liu's wolf pack tactics are also applicable here, rest assured, the Soviet army can't run, and at the same time, order Liu Chun's First Cavalry Brigade and Tong Batu's Second Cavalry Brigade to seize and destroy the Soviet field airfields in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude. ”

"Take a salary from the bottom of the kettle, knock out the nest of the Soviet Air Force, so many planes, watch him land there! The tone was grim, and the last few words were squeezed out of his teeth.

On the morning of 29 September, in the northern battlefield of Outer Mongolia, the first to engage in battle were the swarming Soviet air force and independent division aviation.

Although the division commander had ordered the air force to take over two-thirds of the Soviet planes, Le Yiqin obviously did not want to add too much difficulty to the ground air defense troops; with the guidance of radar, the two major flight groups of the independent division's air forces, more than 1,100 fighters, climbed to a favorable altitude in advance, and after engaging with the Soviet planes, they swooped down from a high altitude, and the first to hit was a group of more than 600 Soviet bombers.

A tragic air battle kicked off from this, the sky was full of fighter planes flying up and down, chasing and shooting at each other, like strange birds spitting fire from steel, in the blue sky, desperately fighting, the whistling sound of aircraft engines, filling every inch of space, "Da da da!" "The machine guns roared, and the ballistics of bullets flew like they, tearing through the air and scarring the sky!

The movements of the Leyiqin group were like a sharp machete, slashing down from a high altitude, not only cutting down the Soviet air formation, but also cutting the Soviet bomber group out of the escort formation of more than 1,500 fighters.

Seeing the disrupted air formation of the Soviet army, Le Yiqin did not take advantage of the situation to hold on to the Soviet bomber group, and ordered: "All regiments pay attention, cooperate with each other, form a local battlefield advantage, and start attacking the Soviet fighter group, today's battle, regardless of casualties!" ”

After the initial confusion, the commander of the Soviet air group formation, Lieutenant General Jonasov, deputy commander of the Air Force of the Don Military District, saw the intention of the independent divisional aviation, delayed and delayed the speed of his own fleet, and ordered the escorting fighter group to separate the fighters who outnumbered the opponent, leaving a sentence, "Regardless of casualties, inflict heavy losses on the independent divisional aviation!" Then, he commanded the remaining bombers and more than 200 fighters and continued to fly over the theater of operations.

The commanders of the air combat formations on both sides gave almost the same orders, all of which were to kill their opponents at any cost; on the battlefield of Outer Mongolia, they fought several times, and they were blushing when they met; first the air force of the Transcaucasian Military District, and then the air force of the Don Military District, in the air battle with the two flying groups in the north and south of the independent division, they were all discouraged, and the Soviet fighter group that came to support them from other places was naturally not convinced, and as soon as they came up, they took out a desperate posture.

Of course, Lieutenant General Jonasov has not forgotten his own task, and is mainly to receive the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District to break through and retreat northward, if this task is not completed, even if the fighter group of the independent division is greatly damaged, his own aircraft group will not take much advantage, and the biggest possibility is that both sides will lose.

At the time of the air battle, the general attack of the corps directly under the independent division on the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District of the USSR in the encirclement also began.

Three tank brigades and more than 1,000 tanks, divided into two assault clusters, formed a wedge-shaped formation in accordance with the basic principles of tank combat, and the iron armor roared and rolled up the dust in the sky, which was several zhang high and dozens of kilometers wide, mixed with the sound of "Zaza" and the metal sound of the crawlers crushing the ground.

It's like a high wall that moves as a whole, Qi is brand new and foggy from south to north, pressing towards the Soviet position, and after a few days of encirclement, Battle's armored troops have not made a move, and they are hidden on the periphery of the encirclement and are on standby, so neither the commander of the Transcaucasian Military District, General Kulygin, nor the commander of the Soviet army on the frontline position, does not know that in front of them, there is such a torrent of steel!

The assault on the infantry positions by the cluster of tanks was terrible, and after a few days of encirclement, the Soviet artillery had long been beaten to ashes by the artillery group of the directly subordinate corps, and it was impossible to use artillery shells to block the armored corps of Battle, and the Soviet army, which was not prepared with anti-tank weapons, did not even have the strength to parry in the face of the crushing tank cluster, and the position was in a panic.

In order to block these invulnerable steel fortresses and avoid being clustered by independent divisions of tanks and breaking through to the core area, the Soviet infantry on the front line could only take their lives to fill in, under the roar of the commander and the instigation of the political commissar, the Soviet infantry bundled up the cluster grenades, lay down in the temporary trenches, looked at the tanks that were getting closer and closer, felt the trembling of the ground under them, and were ready to fight with their lives, in exchange for the temporary stability of the position.

Thanks to Battle, from the European battlefield, from the Germans, learned the advanced infantry and tank cooperative combat tactics, and in the troops, many times carried out synthetic exercises, accompanied by the tank attack directly under the infantry of the corps, the submachine gun in the hand, shot a tongue of fire, the Soviet infantry who tried to attack the tank, a thousand holes.

More than 20 minutes after the offensive began, Tang Qiuli received a report from the frontal assault group, "Division commander, my frontal assault group has broken through the first line of Soviet positions, is attacking the remnants of the advancing Soviet troops in depth, and retreating to the second line of defense!" ”

(To be continued)(To be continued......